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Last batch of highly radioactive uranium fuel removed from remote Arctic military town

By Thomas Nilsen, The Barents Observer December 4, 2024

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union developed the Alfa-class of small, but very fast, attack hunter submarines. All were based in Zapadnaya Litsa, not far from the border with Norway on the Barents Sea coast.

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